New Godspeed You! Black Emperor Album Will Make Your Work Day Feel Epic

It’s been almost a decade since Godspeed You! Black Emperor released an album, and the music of their return is appropriately dramatic. Godspeed emerged amid the mid-to-late ‘90s wave of post-rock, a loosely defined genre in which rock instruments are used to play mostly instrumental compositions, especially ones that gradually build through steady repetition into towering crescendos and feature bombasticalbum and song titles. In the decade they’ve been off many of the bands they grew up with and in some cases inspired—including Sigur Rós and Explosions in the Sky—have risen to play large theaters and provide the soundtrack for big time movies and TV shows and commercials.